Improved cutting- or lap-board



NORMAN ODO'NNELL, OF'O'I'NQINNATI, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 107,285, dated Sqwember 13, 11870. I

IMPROVED CUTTING- OR LAP-BOARD.

The Scheduld referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same I, NORMAN ODOXNELL, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Ohio,have invented a new and useful Cutting- Board or pap-Board, of which the fifllowing is a specifica t-ion.

Nature and Objects of the I n velttioif-- My invention consists of an improved manufacture v of the lap-board employed by seamstresses and others for cutting out their work upon.

These boards are, itis well known, commonly made of wood, and, hesidesbeing cumbersome, are liable to become split/or broken along the grain.

My improvement consists in making such hoards of I tar-hoard or straw-board, such as employed by bookbinders for the covers of books and portfolios, or I may use other thick paperboard, either plain or stif-v fened around its margin with rattan or wire, or other material.

hand.

In the accompanying dran'ing- A represents a cutting or lap-board, with the customary coving, (I, to receive the operators person.

I claim-as my invention--- As a new article of manufacture, the cntting-orlaphoard herein described, constructed with a.body of mill-board, tar-board, straw-board, or analogous thick paper-board, with a cloth or other suitable covering,

-l and formed with a-coving orconoavity, (1-, all substantiallyjas set forth.

" In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my NORMAN ODONNELL.v

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Geo. H. KNIGHT, James H. LAYMAN. 

